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Short answers on how to write, cite, check and export in AI for Research.

Getting started

New document: Start blank, pick a template (literature review, research proposal or essay), or open a Word file. Its formatting, comments and tracked changes come with it.
Saving: Your work saves as you type. File › Version history shows earlier versions. You can name a version or restore it.
Sharing: Click Share to invite people by email as editors, commenters or viewers, or to turn on a link.

Autocomplete: Turn it on in the toolbar. Pause at the end of a paragraph and a grey suggestion appears, with its sources. Tab accepts, Refine asks again, Conclude writes a closing sentence and the next heading.
AI suggest and Cite: The small bar at the cursor writes from that exact spot, or opens citation search.
Autocomplete sources: Use the arrow next to Autocomplete to choose where suggestions come from: web or Library papers, one Library folder, publication years, citation counts and preprints.
Write with AI: Open it from the side rail or the AI menu. Give a topic and choose papers, your Library or both. It drafts the document section by section with citations, and you accept each part.
A paragraph: Hover over a paragraph and click ✦ to edit it with AI, find citations for it, ask about it, review it or comment.

Cite: Type @ or use Cite in the toolbar, then search your Library and published papers. AI for Research builds the reference list under References.
Style: Pick a style in the status bar (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA, ACS, IEEE, Vancouver and more). Every citation and reference updates. See all styles
A citation: Click a citation to open the paper, save it to your Library, switch to Author (Year) or edit it.

Library: Upload PDFs and sort them into collections. Cite them, or click Ask to chat about one.
Find papers: Search 250M+ scholarly works and filter by year, citation count and open access. Cite a paper in your document or save it to your Library.
AI Chat: Answers cite real papers. Choose Web, Library or Document as sources, and add context with @.

Checks: Run Claim check, peer review, source quality, proofread or tone on the whole document or on a selection.
Changes: Proofread and Claim check fixes can appear as tracked changes. Accept or reject them one at a time or all at once.
Comments: Select text and add a comment (Ctrl+Alt+M). Reply to, resolve or delete comments in the Comments panel.

Word: File › Download Word saves a .docx with headings, footnotes, comments, tracked changes, equations, tables and images.
PDF: File › Download PDF. Set the page size, margins, running head and page numbers in File › Page setup.
LaTeX: File › Download LaTeX saves a zip you can open in Overleaf, with main.tex, references.bib and your figures.

What they are: The free tools work on their own page: a citation generator, literature review and gap finder, proposal and essay drafts, a paraphraser, statistics and PDF tools.
Without an account: AI tools give 3 free runs a day without an account. The citation generator, writing pattern checker, statistics and PDF tools have no limit.
Into the editor: Click Open in the editor on a result to make it a document. Its citations stay live and the reference list builds itself.
Private tools: The statistics, PDF and writing pattern tools run in your browser. Your files and data are not uploaded.

Where papers come from: From a scholarly index of over 250 million works built on OpenAlex. Records come from publishers, Crossref, PubMed and repositories.
Are citations real?: Yes. AI features cite papers from search results or your Library, never from the model’s memory. The text around a citation is still AI-written: check that the source says what the sentence claims.
Abstract only: Many records have only a title and abstract. AI answers built on them say less than the full paper might. Upload the PDF to your Library to ask about the full text.
Wrong details: Click a citation to edit it. Records in the index are corrected by OpenAlex, not by AI for Research.

Limits: The Free plan has daily limits for AI features; paid plans have monthly limits or none. See every plan.
When limits reset: Daily limits reset each day; monthly limits each month.
Failed runs: If an AI feature fails or returns an error, it does not count against your limit. Try again, or try a shorter text.
Payments: Payments are handled by Dodo Payments, our merchant of record, which also issues receipts and handles sales tax. Manage your plan in Account › Billing.
Cancelling: Cancel in Account › Billing. Your plan stays active until the end of the period you paid for, then moves to Free. Your documents stay.

Forgotten password: Use Forgot password on the sign-in page. We email you a link to set a new one.
Your data: Your documents and Library are private unless you share them, and are never used to train AI. Read the privacy policy, how we use AI and cookies and storage.
Delete your account: Account › Delete account removes your documents and profile. Copies in backups go when the backups expire.

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